Display rack or holder.



PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

S. KRAUS. DISPLAY RACK OR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1904 N0 MODEL.

w M E W Patented September 6, 1904.

SAMUEL KRAUS,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSlGNOR TO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY RACK OR HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,616, dated September 6, 1904.

Application filed May 16, 1904:. Serial No- 208,131. kNo model.)

To (1.7] whom it vim/y concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL KRAUs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvcment in Display Racks or Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable display racks or holders for pens, pencils, pocketknives, and other articles; and it consists of a holder composed of a plurality of sections or blocks provided with pockets in suitable or desired number to receivethe articles to be displayed and flexibly connected together end to end or in tandem, said blocks resting each upon its own bottom and when folded together lying side by side in the form of a rectangular block, the sections or blocks composing which are jointed together at alternate opposite ends, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a display-holder embodying the improvement, the display sections or blocks--in this instance eight in number-being folded together closely side by side for transportation. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the holder, showing the blocks unfolded and spread apart in the shape of a four-pointed star, this being one of the shapes into which the connected blocks can be put. .Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical central section of one of the blocks.

The display-blocks eight in number in this instanceare indicated at A. They may be of any suitable construction and material and are provided each with a series of vertical pockets 1/, in any desired or convenient number, of suitable shape and construction to reccive and hold pencils, pens, pocket-knives, or other articles to be displayed. In this instance they are designed for pencils, one of which is shown at P. The blocks in the present instance are hollow, being made each of a closed pastcboard box or receptacle of rectangular shape with an internal diaphragm a, of like material, firmly supported in place. Corresponding holes are formed in the top of the box or hollow block and in the diaphragm (1, and registering holes in these two parts form the pockets.

The blocks A are shown in Fig. 1 folded together closely side by side and in parallelism, forming when thus assembled a large block of sectional structure and rectangular contour. \Vhether assembled together or spread apart each block is self-supporting and rests on its own bottom. They are jointed together end to end or in tandem -that is to say, when the connected series of blocks are assembled together as in Fig. 1 any one block is jointed at one end to the block which adjoins it on one side and at the opposite end to the block which adjoins it on the other side. The hinge or joint is conveniently formed by a strip a of suitable flexible or pliable material, textile or otherwise, which is pasted or glued to the vertical heads of two adjoining blocks alternately at opposite ends of the rectangular composite block of assembled sections.

(Shown in Fig. 1.) Each strip a is coextensive with and covers and forms a finish for the two heads which it connects. Each joint may be reinforced, if need be, by a similar strip (1, pasted or glued to the interior opposite faces of the two blocks adjoining the point where the external joint is located. The sections A when thus connected can be unfolded and swung apart upon their hinges to provide a variety of display arrangements. One such arrangement is illustrated in Fig. 2, wherein the sections are disposed to form a fourpointed star with V-shaped points, each formed of two sections. Other equally-pleasing display arrangements can be made, this being due to the manner of connecting the sections and to the fact that each section is self-supporting and rests on its own bottom in the position it may be when adjusted. The munber of sections A can of course be varied at pleasure.

What I claim, ters Patent, is

The display rack or holder consisting of blocks provided with vertical pockets to receive the articles to be displayed, adapted to and desire to secure by Lotlie side by side when folded together, each Intestimony WhereofIafliXmysignature in block beingself-supporting', and pliable strips presence of two Witnesses.

a secured to and connecting together the heads SAMUEL KRAUS of adjoining blocks alternately at opposite 5 ends, and covering and forming a finish for Witnesses:

the two heads which they severally connect, OTTO GUGENHEIM,

substantially as hereinbefore set forth. P. H. BUoKMAsTER. 

